Rio 2016 Olympics

[Uncle Leo]

Anyone bothering with the opening ceremony? It's apparantly "analogue", substantially cheaper than Danny Boyle's spectacular, and starts about midnight.

I'll be well tucked up in my pit. :smile:

No...I only watched the London one because it was London. Still not sure how much live action I'll watch. All the athletics finals will be well past midnight...

 

[londonblue]

No...I only watched the London one because it was London. Still not sure how much live action I'll watch. All the athletics finals will be well past midnight...

By pure coincidence I'm off work in about an hour for two weeks. Next week is flying, the week after that we're in the New Forest. I could well watch more than I watched live last time around when I was at work.

As for the opening ceremony, I don't think i'll bother.

 

[Firestorm]

First things I will be interested in

Mens Road Race tomorrow
Womens Sunday
TTs Wednesday

Then the Track, but its a going to be a case of recording the highlights if I can find out when they are being shown.

Might watch the sailing, just to see whether there are any bodies to negotiate.....

 

[C C Csiders]

Sorry to go all Barna (and I'm waiting for him to post on this thread telling us he doesn't care for the Olympics) but a decent little Olympics quiz here...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/05/rio-2016-big-olympics-quiz-games

18/25 your score to beat.

19/25!!:smile:

 

[mattitouk]

Anyone bothering with the opening ceremony? It's apparantly "analogue", substantially cheaper than Danny Boyle's spectacular, and starts about midnight.

I'll be well tucked up in my pit. :smile:

I stupidly stayed up for it (4 hours of my life i will never get back). To say it wasn't impressive, would be paying it a compliment.

I'm not overly impressed with it so far, but it's early days so I will reserve judgement until it's finished.
Just a shame it's getting quite a negative press about the crime, half empty stadiums and the cancelling of events such as the rowing etc.

 

[Pubey]

Well the crowds aren't great and some of the organisation does seem a little ropey, but I'm still completely hooked. Rugby 7's has been great and I was well into the fencing as well. Glad to hear that van Vleuten will be fine.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Must credit Pubey for spotting this one on Twitter

 

[RHB]

Our first Gold and Silver in the GB bank. Well done Adam Peaty for the gold, and Jazz Carlin for the silver. World record too.

 

[Pubey]

Our first Gold and Silver in the GB bank. Well done Adam Peaty for the gold, and Jazz Carlin for the silver. World record too.

Yeah great effort in the swimming, shame they were on so late.

I gave up on Spain vs Croatia in the basketball at half time because it looked like Spain would boss it, but Croatia (the underdog) staged a fantastic fightback. Worth watching the 4th quarter highlights

 

[Uncle Leo]

One little Olympic moan - the coverage on the BBC is becoming inbcreasingly, ridiculously, parochial.

I started watching Olympic Breakfast this morning and, understandlably, Adam Peaty's sensational performance was lead item. No issue with that.

Then Jazz Carlin. Again, her silver deserved credit, but there was NO mention of the fact that she was second to Katie Ledecky, who smashed the WR by nearly two seconds.

It wasn't until 6:37 that they saw fit to mention Michael Phelps' 19th Olympic gold (I have an issue with the amount of medals given out in the pool, but they are there to be won and Phelps has done it time and time again.)

Of course we all want to see Team GB athletes do well, but it's not just about us, BBC...

 

[Pubey]

One little Olympic moan - the coverage on the BBC is becoming inbcreasingly, ridiculously, parochial.

I started watching Olympic Breakfast this morning and, understandlably, Adam Peaty's sensational performance was lead item. No issue with that.

Then Jazz Carlin. Again, her silver deserved credit, but there was NO mention of the fact that she was second to Katie Ledecky, who smashed the WR by nearly two seconds.

It wasn't until 6:37 that they saw fit to mention Michael Phelps' 19th Olympic gold (I have an issue with the amount of medals given out in the pool, but they are there to be won and Phelps has done it time and time again.)

Of course we all want to see Team GB athletes do well, but it's not just about us, BBC...

Yes that's valid point. Djokovic is out as well, which is a big shock, and the hosts drew 0-0 with Iraq(!) in the football.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Yes that's valid point. Djokovic is out as well, which is a big shock, and the hosts drew 0-0 with Iraq(!) in the football.

That Iraq result wasn't mentioned at all on the Beeb (at least in the 50 mins that I watched) :nope:

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Props to Ellie Downie in the gymnastics who landed on her neck during her floor routine but insisted on then doing her vault. Tough Cookie.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Yes that's valid point. Djokovic is out as well, which is a big shock, and the hosts drew 0-0 with Iraq(!) in the football.

Shows how little is getting through onto the BBC TV. No idea Djoko was out, Murray(s) lost in the doubles, and the William Sisters are out. Pretty poor TV coverage this year on the news.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Shows how little is getting through onto the BBC TV. No idea Djoko was out, Murray(s) lost in the doubles, and the William Sisters are out. Pretty poor TV coverage this year on the news.

That was all covered in the BBC bulletin at 0600.

 

[MK Shrimper]

That was all covered in the BBC bulletin at 0600.

Ahem, I was still in bed. However didn't catch it at 6.30 or 7, probably due to a little tyke watching Harvey Beaks/Sanjay & Craig/Spongebob (delete as appropriate). :blush:

 

[Uncle Leo]

Ahem, I was still in bed. However didn't catch it at 6.30 or 7, probably due to a little tyke watching Harvey Beaks/Sanjay & Craig/Spongebob (delete as appropriate). :blush:

I got up early to give Olympic Breakfast a go, but it wasn't all that so won't be doing so tomorrow!

Also had major disagreements with the boy about sport and not cartoons being on at that time but he was told to stick it.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

One little Olympic moan - the coverage on the BBC is becoming inbcreasingly, ridiculously, parochial.

I started watching Olympic Breakfast this morning and, understandlably, Adam Peaty's sensational performance was lead item. No issue with that.

Then Jazz Carlin. Again, her silver deserved credit, but there was NO mention of the fact that she was second to Katie Ledecky, who smashed the WR by nearly two seconds.

It wasn't until 6:37 that they saw fit to mention Michael Phelps' 19th Olympic gold (I have an issue with the amount of medals given out in the pool, but they are there to be won and Phelps has done it time and time again.)

Of course we all want to see Team GB athletes do well, but it's not just about us, BBC...

Yep agree with you about the amount of medals given out in swimming. I have always thought they should have a limit on the amount of events one individual can enter.

The live coverage of the Katie Ledecky & Jazz Carlin race was pretty good with. I suppose the BBC are going to be a bit biased in the news/highlights after the event. I wonder how much of a mention Adam Peaty gets on American TV?

Also I need to listen to it again but our National Anthem sounded a bit weird in places with extra notes added? I also heard the American National Anthem and that also sounded a bit odd in places.

 

[londonblue]

Yeah great effort in the swimming, shame they were on so late.

I gave up on Spain vs Croatia in the basketball at half time because it looked like Spain would boss it, but Croatia (the underdog) staged a fantastic fightback. Worth watching the 4th quarter highlights

I'm on holiday. I set the alarm and watched on my tablet in bed.

 

[londonblue]

That Iraq result wasn't mentioned at all on the Beeb (at least in the 50 mins that I watched) :nope:

They were all over it (and Djokovic) at about 3.00am.